Scotland Yard officers arrested a 45-year-old woman this morning over alleged breaches of privacy.
The unnamed suspect is being quizzed by Operation Tuleta officers at a South London cop shop while her home is searched.
She was cuffed on suspicion of conspiring to commit offences under Sections 1 and 3 of the Computer Misuse …

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It's nice to have a change from all those Reg headlines that state "male hacker arrested". Oh wait, The Reg never does actually specify gender unless they think they can get a few extra clicks by printing the word "female". So when do the Reg and the Daily Mail finally complete their merger?

Nice of the police to take onboard this whole women in IT seriously

Re: Nice of the police to take onboard this whole women in IT seriously

Yes, well, perhaps some of them remembered a certain Grace Hopper, who "cobolled" together a language that became for some time the universal computer language of commerce, and who had previously put together the first compiler, when scoffers had told her that computers could only do arithmetic.

Incidentally her ongoing work with the US Navy took her up to the rank of Rear Admiral, and I doubt there were many lady admirals anywhere in the world at that time.

It's noteworthy that on one hand they refuse to prosecute BT/Vodafone and all the others for illegally intercepting and sharing communications, but individuals seem to be fair game where RIPA is concerned. This is the same law that the telecoms industry gets to ignore with impunity.

Agree

Apparently, CPS London consider it is not in the public interest to prosecute BT/Phorm directors for exactly the same offences committed against thousands of BT customers and the web sites that serve them.

What's that? A lady using her tiny ladybrain to hack!

No offence intended, but isn't it much more likely she is really a "password guesser" which I suppose the press call "hacker", thing is, she could probably be replaced with a not-too complex script given some input of publicly available knowledge? probably cheaper to get her to do it though, couple of bowls of ready brek and a fag, no worries...